When the Gallic ones were linked to defend their country (53), of the deputies of all the leagued States gathered secretly in the country of Carnutes (Chartres), and there, on the standards joined together in beam, they solemnly swore to take the weapons for the common fatherland.

Criers laid out on the roads gave the signal of the insurrection quickly, and Vercingétorix organized resistance.

César, to take Bourges, had built high wood towers which dominated the walls.

The Gallic ones succeeded in setting fire to one of them, and activated the flame with tallow balls and pitch; they could the throw only of one very perilous place, exposed to the features of the enemy, but, as soon as a man fell, another replaced it, and as long as the tower was upright, the Gallic ones were concerned at this station honor.

Alésia (Sainte-Reine Alise, in the Gold Coast), was one of the strongest places of Gaule, and Vercingétorix defended it with 80 000 men.

But César blocked it and starved it: the armies which tried to deliver it were overcome; all the exits of besieged failed, and Alésia was reduced to capitulate.

Vercingétorix, hoping to soften the winner, delivered itself: gone up on and a cover war-horse of a splendid armour, it only left the city, arrived au.galop in the Roman camp, and stopping in front of César, threw to ground its javelin, its sword and its helmet.

César put it in prison, and made there die.